North Shields, Albert Edward Dock, barrage balloon site

HER Number:
11767

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Albert Edward Dock, barrage balloon site

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Barrage Balloon Site

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
A barrage balloon site mapped from air photographs of 1942. The mooring circle was 63m in diameter. A balloon is visible on the ground on one wartime photograph. Two associated buildings lie side by side just outside the mooring circle.

Easting:
3481

Northing:
6689

Grid Reference:
NZ34816689

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405917; Aerial Photograph RAF FNO/98 1096 16-AUG-1942